Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business
Big data company Databricks Inc. is getting into the agentic artificial intelligence coworker game with the launch of a new tool called Genie One, aimed at helping business teams orchestrate workflows and automate work-related tasks.
The arrival of Genie One expands on the company’s existing Genie suite, but goes well beyond its original conversational analytics capabilities. Instead of simply digging into data for answers, it provides comprehensive assistance by doing things on behalf of workers. It reasons over both structured and unstructured data, including corporate information that lives outside the Databricks platform.
Genie One was announced during the company’s annual Data + AI Summit, which kicked off in San Francisco today. At the event, it also announced a new architecture called Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing that unifies data from operational and analytical workloads within a single data lake.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Ali Ghodsi said Genie One is an effort to help enterprises overcome their frustrations with existing AI copilot tools, which have failed to live up to their extraordinary early promises. While AI has had a significant impact on software engineering teams, that’s only because AI coding tools had the fortune of having the required context buried within the source code they’re working on. But other business workloads don’t have the same luxury. When it comes to things like sales, marketing and finance, the critical business context needed to automate tasks is highly fragmented – it’s there, but it’s buried deep and scattered far and wide across disparate software platforms, year-old business documents or even locked inside the heads of employees.
